I was peacefully doing some ironing upstairs yesterday while Storm Eunice raged and howled outside when I spotted a green bag whirling past our window. "That's odd," I thought "That looks like our green potato bag which we put in the shed yesterday to stop it being blown away." When I looked out I saw the glass from our shed window lying unbroken ( Read more... )

When we went on the local street art monster trail a few weeks ago I wondered why the local businesses that financed it hadn't done it for Halloween. Now I think someone might have checked the long-range weather forecast and realised that this particular sort of street art wouldn't work on a day beginning with torrential rain and high winds! It is ( Read more... )

While we wait...and wait...and wait...

It's a beautiful day today so we decided to make the most of the last of the autumn colours and walk up to a viewpoint quite near us and then down through the woods and park and back home in a circle.

Some photos behind the cut

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As today is the day the final poppy is placed in the commemorative installation "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" before it is taken down I thought I'd share the photos I took on two visits in September and then last week. The installation consists of 888,246 hand-made ceramic poppies planted in the moat of the Tower of London, each one ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven't been around much. Very busy at the moment and likely to continue to be for the forseeable future.

First the book meme.

I Just Finished Reading

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. Fascinating and compelling account of the events of August 1914 covering the outbreak of World War I and continuing through the battles and fast ( Read more... )

No Book Meme this week as I'm still immersed in The Guns of August so have some BookBenches instead. To promote reading and literacy Books About Town have put a series of BookBenches celebrating authors in four trails around London. It's partly to entertain kids in the school holidays but it's fun for adults as well. I've only done the Riverside ( Read more... )

I have finally got my act together and uploaded my photos from Hever Castle so here is the promised picspam ( Read more... )

In lieu of the Book meme this week have a brief picspam. We decided to go away last weekend in order to make up for having been backwards and forwards to Lincolnshire so often recently. Neither of us can quite remember what gave us the idea of Broadstairs in Kent but it turned out to be a good choice. It's within very easy reach of London (and ( Read more... )

I've been a very bad LJ-er recently. The list of posts I meant to write and didn't is almost good enough for bullet points, which I can never resist anyway.

• Seeing the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls and various other "celebs" including one of the Simon Russell Beale clones play the piano

• The perils of showing not telling on film. The demon in "Night ( Read more... )

No book meme this week I'm afraid but have a picspam instead ( Read more... )